Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : richardw
From : Finnigann
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 14:49:00

-=> richardw wrote to Finnigann <=-

 ri>   Re: Re: Um...no comment?
 ri>   By: Finnigann to sn0w0wl on Sat Sep 03 2005 06:10 am

 >  >   But imprudence is as imprudence does.  Ditto incompetence, and boy does
 >  > suck when they're one in the same with a healthy scattering of arrogant
 >  > stupidity thrown on top of it.
 >
 >  sn> You just described about 99.9% of the population of the Earth....no one
 >  sn> truly believes anything seriously bad will happen to them...and people
 >  sn> who do believe it are called paranoid....in just about every situation
 >  sn> people end up saying "If only I had..."....
 >
 >  sn> That's why they say, "Hindsight is 20/20"...cause *foresight* is, for
 >  sn> the vast majority of humans, completely blind....
 >
 > In 2002 a huricane strike in Louisianna was listed as one of three major eve
 > that could cripple the USA. Not much foresite needed... He just had to turn
 > loose of the money.

 ri> Have you any idea how long it takes to rebuild a levee?  Let us
 ri> postulate that funding was DOUBLED as soon as Bush took office for the
 ri> first term. You think that would have changed anything today?

 ri> Have you any idea the level of crookedness in the NO, and LA
 ri> governments? Can you possibly think that more than say 20% of the funds
 ri> appropriated would actually get put into the levee?

 ri> I have a well educated friend who grew up there... I've heard bad
 ri> things.

I have no doubt that governments all over share some of the same
charcteristics. But do you know how much of the defunded amounts helped in NO?

Government ineffciencys aside. It is indicitive of 'w's attitudes towards the
average person.

Government is only as good as the governed people demand it be. Yes, I firmly
beleive it. we get what we work for. government is needed in a compelx society
such as ours. It's up to the people to make sure it's doing the job we intend
it to do.

You AND me are part of the process. If people care so little that they can not
be bothered to vote, something bad usually happens.

Of the three choices usually found on ballots... yes/no/missing the worst one
is the last one.

I hope you agree with me on this point at least.

.... Civilization is a movement, it is a voyage not a harbor.
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